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Lavish self-divisions : the novels of Joyce Carol Oates / Brenda Daly.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.A8 Z635 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daly, Brenda O., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938---Criticism and interpretation.
- Oates, Joyce Carol.
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- History.
- Self in literature.
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
- Summary:
- Joyce Carol Oates's authorial voice is lavishly diverse. In her works she divides herself into many voices, many persons. This up-to-date examination of Oates's novels argues that the father-identified daughters in her early novels have become, in the novels of the 1980s, self-authoring women who seek alliances with their culturally devalued mothers. Oates's struggle to resist and transform male-defined literary conventions is often mirrored by the struggles of her female characters to resist and transform social conventions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0878058850
- OCLC:
- 34354862
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